Annette Funicello-Tall Paul (Music Video)

This is Annette Funicello singing her first hit song called Tall Paul. Annette was the very first Disney Channel Star. Before Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Raven Simone, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato or Selina Gomez there was Annette Funicello. Annette started out at The Mickey Mouse Club in 1955. Annette was so popular Walt Disney himself decided to give her her own show. On the show, she sung a song called “how will I know my love“ it was meant to be laughed at and no one at the Disney studio thought much of it. But the next day it aired, thousands of letters and calls came to the studio asking where they can buy the record. Walt Disney saw potential in Annette and decided to give her a recording contract. Walt Disney then hired Robert and Richard Sherman to write songs for Annette’s first album. One of these songs was called Tall Paul. When recording the song and Annette’s first album, they realized that Annette’s voice was too soft and was over powered by the music. So they asked Annette to double her voice which was new at the time. So Annette would sing the song the first time correctly, then she’d put on the studio earphones, listen to the playback, and sing to the playback. The song made the top ten in 1959. Because the song was a huge success, Walt Disney Decided to hire The Sherman Brothers again to write songs for Mary Poppins. At the time, Annette was dating another teen idol named Paul Anka. Because the song came out around the same time of their teenage affair, everyone thought that the song was written for him. I edited two tv specials of Annette singing Tall Paul. The first one is a tv special titled: Disneyland records presents Annette singing “tall Paul“ and the second one was Annette on American Bandstand performing tall Paul as a puppet with dick Clark. Both featured in 1959. I also included a few vintage photos of Annette and Paul Anka. Please rate, comment and subscribe.